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After five years in Paris, Ethan Gilsdorf moved back to the States at the end of 2004 and lives in the Boston area, where he makes his living as a freelance journalist, poet, critic, editor and teacher. His articles, poems and essays have been published in dozens of magazines, newspapers, guidebooks and literary journals world-wide.


Contact Ethan Gilsdorf: ethan "at" ethangilsdorf.com

Agent:

Fairbank Literary Representation
199 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 1
Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) 02138
tel: 617.576.0030
sorche@fairbankliterary.com
http://www.fairbankliterary.com

>Download Ethan Gilsdorf's CV

As author:

Current project: I'm writing the book "Escape Artists: Travels through the Worlds of Role Playing Freaks, Online Gaming  Geeks, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms." to be published Fall, 2009 by The Lyons Press. More info here.

Are you a fantasy freak? Tolkien junkie? RPG geek? MMO addict? Are you involved in fantasy-escapist culture ----  role playing games like D&D, books like Lord of the Rings, or online games like World of Warcraft?  Do you have a story to tell? Contact me: escape.geeks@gmail.com.

>As Journalist/Critic:

Regular freelance gigs:

>The New York Times (Travel writer; other sections: Arts)

> The Boston Globe (Travel writer, Movie critic, Book critic; Bicycling columnist, other sections: Living/Arts, Ideas, Sunday Magazine, Op-ed)

>The San Francisco Chronicle (Book critic)

>The Improper Bostonian (travel, lifestyle, dining)

>The Common Review (as their East Coast correspondent)

>Christian Science Monitor (Arts/Weekend; also: Backstory)

Other publishing credits:

U.S.
>National Geographic Traveler
>Psychology Today
>The Washington Post
>Los Angeles Times
>USA Today
>Fodor’s travel guides (former Paris hotel correspondent)
>Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington DC)
>Paris Notes (Los Angeles)
>Cleveland Plain Dealer
>St Petersburg (Florida) Times
>Buffalo News
>New York Post
>Poets & Writers (NYC)
>France Magazine (DC)
>Colorado Independent (Colorado Springs)
>New Orleans Times-Picayune
>Weekly Dig (Boston)
>Reno (NV) News and Review
>Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC; Atlanta)
>Port Folio Weekly (Norfolk, VA)
>Memphis Flyer (TN)
>The Literary Traveler (Boston)
>Potash Hill (Vermont)
>Keene Sentinel (NH)
>Brattleboro Reformer (VT)

Canada:
>The Walrus (Toronto)
>The Citizen (Ottawa)
>Globe and Mail (Toronto)
>Maisonneuve (Montreal)
>Literary Review of Canada (Toronto)
>Glengarry News (Glengarry, Ontario)
>Planet S (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Europe:
>Time Out Paris (Paris/London; 5 years as film, theater and restaurant critic)
>Prague Literary Review (Prague)
>The Sunday Post (Glasgow, Scotland)
>The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
>The Grapevine (Reykjavik, Iceland)
>Go (Airtran inflight magazine, London)

Asia/Oceania/Middle East/Africa:
>Sunday Times (Johannesburg, South Africa)
>The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand)
>Emirates Inflight Magazine (United Arab Emirates)
>One magazine (Indonesia)
>Australian Financial Review (Sydney)
>Featurenet (South Africa)
>SIRS Knowldege Source (South Africa)
>Chrome (Malaysia)
>Communication Resources (Singapore)

>As Poet/writer:
Ethan was awarded a 2007 Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council/Mass Cultural Council for a non-fiction book in progress.

The winner of the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Competition and the Esmé Bradberry Contemporary Poets Prize, Gilsdorf has been awarded a grant from the Vermont Arts Council (1999) and residencies at the Millay Colony (2005), the Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education (Vermont/USA, 2004), the New Pacific Studio (New Zealand, 2005-06) and Vermont Studio Center (Vermont/USA, 1999)

His poems can be seen in Poetry, The Southern Review, The North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Poetry London, plus anthologies like Future Welcome; Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry; Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades; Radio Waves: Poems Celebrating the Wireless; and In the Criminal's Cabinet. Gilsdorf was also the Paris regional coordinator for Poets For Peace/United Poets Coalition.

He is co-founder of Grub Street's Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP) in Boston.

Read some sample poems here.


>As Editor:
Gilsdorf is East Coast correspondent for The Common Review. He also served as a contributing editor to Get Lost magazine, managing and poetry editor of the Paris-based Frank, poetry editor of The New Delta Review, and founder and editor of Rant.


>As Teacher/Community Leader:
Ethan teaches classes in poetry, memoir, personal essay, op-ed writing, reviewing, general journalism/feature writing, and the business of freelancing writing. He is also  is co-founder of Grub Street's Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP) in Boston.

He has led poetry workshops for youths of all ages. He has also taught English composition and poetry at Louisiana State University, and has given lectures on poetry and poetry writing and readings at numerous schools and summer programs such as Wheaton College (MA), Marlboro College (VT), Boxboro Elementary School (MA), the Putney (VT) School Summer Programs, Oxbridge Summer Program (Paris), High Mowings School (NH), and Menlo College’s (CA) European study abroad program.

He has volunteered in the Boston Public Schools system as a writing and English tutor/career enrichment speaker, tutor, guest lecturer and poetry workshop leader (Brighton High School, Monument High School, Madison Park High School, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and elsewhere).


>Personal:
Gilsdorf, 41, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, 1966. He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in 1992, and a B.A. in Media, Film and Communications/Writing from Hampshire College in 1989.

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